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` UNITEDSTATES PATENT GFEICE.

" JOHN B; EDDY, or swANSEA, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIeNoR or oNE-HALE To WILLIAM P. MAsoN,`oE SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PtttentN. 413,639, dated october 22, 1889.

Applicatioled August 5, 1889. Serial No. 319,759- (No model.) l

To all whom, it may concern:

Be'it known that I, JOHN B. EDDY, of Swansea, in the county of Bristol and State of Mas-A sachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement inVelocipedes, of which the following is a full` clear, and exact description,

" referencebeingha'd tothe accompanying drawings, forming part .of` this-specification.

Thls inventionhas reference to animprovementin the adjustable support for the sad-1 dle of a velocipede.

The invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of the supporting-bar, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure lis a side view showing the saddle supported on my improved adjustable spring saddle-bearing. Fig.2 is a perspective view of `my improved spring saddle-bearing.

In various kinds of .velocipedes the saddle or saddles are supported on a rod securedin a socket, usually by a clamp-screw, the upper end of the rod being formed at Such an angle as will, when the clamp-piece of the saddle is secured, support the saddle in the desired position.

My invention refers to an improvement on this adjustable Supportingtbar.

Similar numbers of reference designate corresponding `parts throughout.

, In the drawings, the number 3 indicates the saddle, 4 the forward, and' 5 the rear, support of the saddle. These supports are usually formed of spring-wires, and are secured in the clamp-piece, and the bent .end of the adjustable supportingbar, as heretofore constructed, was secured in the clamp-piece 6 by theclamp-screw 7.

The number 8 indica-tes'one form of the socket used to receive the adjustable saddle-supporting bar, and 9 indicates the clampserew by which the bar is secured in the socket. The supporting-bar as heretofore constructed was round. The holes in the socket 8 and the clamp-.piece 6 were also round. The Saddle, as well as the supporting-bar, was held in the required position with reference to turning in they round holes solely by the clamp-screws 7 and 9.

The object of my invention is to give more elasticity to the saddle than is possible with the present spring-support, and to secure the saddle more firmly against turning on the snpport, as also to Secure the supporting-rod more lirmly in the socket; and to these endsI form the supporting-rod of two stout spring-wires 10 and 11 and bind the same togetherby the bands 12. The port-ions of the combined rods 10 and 11 which enter the socket 8 or the hole wise permanently secured together. The holes in the socket and clamp-piece are formed by boring two holes, slightly larger in diameter than each one of the springrods,`close together, as is indicated by a section of socketv 8 in Fig. 1. The two spring-rods 10 and 11 are bent, as is shown in the drawings, so as to -consist of the vertical straight double rod 13,

the elbow-bend 14, the loops 15, and the horizontal double rod 16. The loop portion of the support is' preferably bifurcated, so as to secure lateral strength, and this looped portion may be coiled like the spring 4 of the saddle, as is indicated in broken lines in Fig. 1.

lin the clamp-piece 6 may be braced or other- By the use ofn this improved support the n rider is relieved from the jars incident to rid-l ing on a rough road, much greater elasticity is secured to the Saddle, which is also much more firmly supported than it is on the supporting-rods as heretofore constructed. The clamp-screws bear on the rods 10 and 11 and force them agai'st the sides, so as to hold the support more firmly than is possible in asingle rod.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secnreby Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with the socket 8 and clamp-screw 9, and the clamp-pieceG, having the clamp-screw 7, of the rods 10 and l1, bent at or nearly at rightangle at 14, extending rearwardto form the spring-loop 15, ending in the horizontal ends 16, adapted for entering the clamp-piece 6, as described.

2. The combination, with the socket 8, of the adjustable saddle-support consisting of the rods 10 and 11, united by the bands 12, and bent so as to form the rearwardly-extending bifurcated spring-loop 15, the vertical end 13 and the horizantal end 16, constructed to be adj ustably securedrand form a yieldingsprin gsupport for the saddle of a Velocipede, as de- Ioo Witnesses:

CHARLES B. MASON, Jos. M. SMITH. 

